Trespassing Challenge

This challenge from 2012 involved creating a fan video for Adam Lambert’s single Trespassing. I set up a science-fiction photoshoot using three different outfits and environments (the clothes are always part of the character!). In the story, I play two lookalike rebels who feel out of place in their respective realities. They are led to discover mysterious “Trespassing artefacts” which prompt them to disbelieve in their surroundings, but also open a door into each other’s world. The final image is of a joined reality in which both worlds are transformed. Each rebel has a different relationship to her artefact, almost complementary to the other but not quite. The overall imagery is open to multiple interpretations. (This project turned out to be my second early channelling of something called the “tilted Earth Axis theory,” which I discovered online a few months later in 2013.)

Director & photographer: Smaranda.